Situated south of the city of Santo André and surounded by Atlantic Forest of Sera do Mar in São Paulo, the railway Vila of Paranapiacaba is intrinsicaly linked to the construction of the first railway in the State of São Paulo by the English company Sao Paulo Railway (SPR) that implemented, since the decade of 1860, a modern urban infrastructure for the Brazilian reality of that period. This is an example of pioneering and unique city business planned, designed and managed by the British company, which stil has remaining significant funicular railway technology systems from nineteenth century (threatened with extinction). The Vilage tries to preserve its urban and architectural structures, which are distributed in three nuclei that make up the Vila of Paranapiacaba. The thesis analyzes the possible causes of mischaracterization and gradual loss of its railway colection and urban landscape. Also relies its look on the intervention practices of restoration in order to preserve the vilage remaining elements from nineteenth century, through a revitalization focused on tourism demand. Were selected for case studies three residential copies from diferentiated typology and hierarchy, to be evaluated from a theoretical framework of mainstream restoration, in addition to the Conservation and Restoration Charters, especialy the Venice Charter (1964). Within the context of the industrial heritage of Latin America, the thesis also presents a very similar and contemporary case to the railway Vila of Paranapiacaba, which is the town of Lota - mining city in Chile. The town preservation, as well as the conservation of its industrial collection of coal mines, leads Lota to the conservation and restoration debate. Through the touristic demand, the revitalization garantees its permanency as industrial heritage of Chile.

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